Hello! Well, I’m afraid my Wednesday report will be short this week — I am half-way through The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay — still enjoying it, but not much to add at this point — in the meantime, here’s an article from The New Yorker about Chabon. I’m hoping to read 100 pages a day this week and finish it by the weekend.
My weekend pleasure will be light and fun, I think. Book Club Girl generously gave away The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble to her first few commenters a week or so ago, and I lucked out! So, when we trek to the cabin this weekend I will spend my Saturday thus.
I am also still enjoying The New Earth — here are a few of my favorite quotes from chapter 7:
There are three ways in which the ego will treat the present moment: as a means to an end, as an obstacle, or as an enemy.
Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and
untouched by time.
…joy cannot come to you–ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
I downloaded the transcript of Oprah’s first class last week and enjoyed skimming through the comments. A number of people wondered how she (Oprah) reconciles her specific faith (Christianity) with the more general spiritual precepts of Tolle’s ideas. To sum up her answer I refer back to one of my favorite quotes from an earlier chapter: “The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.” In other words, there are many ways to approach the truth and many — if not most — are compatible.
I do not have a kit book this week — this is my first week not creating a kit since December, and I am enjoying the break to catch up a bit on other aspects of the web site. Plus, I was asked to edit/look over a movie script called aisle seats and it was really funny! I hope the budding filmmaker finds a taker.
In addition, I have had two tentative requests for kits — The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak — so we’ll see if those pan out! If not, I might create an “Instant Classics” kit on Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson.
So, that’s my update! Happy Reading!
